Until Ryan Reynolds helped make Tatum's screen debut as Gambit a reality, it was a part that dodged the "Magic Mike" star for years.

Lizzy Caplan is opening up about that Gambit movie that never was, and her honest thoughts on it getting scrapped. The project — which was reportedly to star Caplan and Channing Tatum and be a standalone film based on the X-Men character,

Lizzy Caplan, who was all set to play the female lead in the now defunct Gambit movie, has shared some surprising new details about the

Channing Tatum’s axed Gambit movie was a “screwball romantic comedy,” Lizzy Caplan recently revealed to Business Insider. Variety reported in November 2017 that Caplan had boarded Tatum’s long-in-the-works passion project as the female lead,

Based on the comic book character Chris Claremont and Jim Lee created in 1990, Gambit made his first appearance in live-action form in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine with Taylor Kitsch in the role.

Gambit's potential solo film with Channing Tatum got scrapped after Disney acquired Fox. Channing Tatum's humorous Gambit portrayal received positive feedback, leading to interest seeing him get the role in future projects.

The film, which had been in development for some time with multiple director exits, was intended to see Tatum as the New Orleans-based mutant with the power to manipulate kinetic energy and whose weapons include a staff and a deck of playing cards. It was axed following Disney and Fox’s merger in 2019.

Channing Tatum attempted for years to get a movie made where he’d portray the card-throwing X-Men character Gambit, but ultimately the dream died when Disney purchased Fox in 2019. As Disney took over ownership of the X-Men universe,

One of the attached stars of 20th Century Fox's scrapped Gambit movie reveals the unique idea behind the Channing Tatum-led X-Men spinoff.